“I said some foul and offensive things whilst tweeting years ago at a time when I was young and proudly ignorant,” Stormzy said, addressing the situation on Twitter. “Very hurtful and discriminative views that I’ve unlearned as I’ve grown up and become a man..”

He then admits the comments he made were “unacceptable and disgusting, full stop,” as well as explains that the “homophobic language [he] used was, embarrassingly, a part of [his] vocabulary when [he] was younger.”

Offensive and inexcusable tweets aside, Stormzy, now 24, also has a bit of a curious relationship with social media, habitually deleting his accounts while he works on new music.

Take a look at Stormzy’s apology for his homophobic tweets in full in the gallery below.